Thursday, 1 January 2015

I
didn’t plan for issue 14 to come out until March as I fancied some downtime and
from December it was all about focussing on the anthology. But the book is in
good hands with East London Press and selling well. I also had a number of
submissions that were in my inbox and starting to kick off. Spouting things
like, ‘The only reason I came here is because I heard there is no waiting in
limbo with PUSH. You send, and if accepted, it’s in print within a couple of
weeks, not 6 months like other magazine publications.’

Point
taken. And so I went to work.

The
compiling of this issue was very quick. Submissions were opened and then closed
within 48 hours. The standard of writing, exceptional. PUSH 14 is, in my
opinion, by far the best issue yet, 66 pages of literary dynamite that will explode
into your lovely faces.

This
is the first issue where I am not player-manager. I just picked the team; a
team that includes 6 making their debuts.

Issue
14 in order of appearance:

P.A. Levy

Michael Keenaghan

Tim Wells

Wayne Holloway

Dean Lilleyman

Joseph Ridgwell

Martin Appleby

Paul Reaney

Jim Gibson

Gary Budden

Gwil James Thomas

Ian Cusack

Raymond Gorman

Jon Tait

Ford Dagenham

PUSH 14 is out on Thursday 15 January and on
sale before and after West Ham/Hull City on Sunday 18 January.

Cost –

£2 on the street

£3.20* by pigeon post

A link will appear on the website soon. However
pre-orders can by made via paypal to here: joe.england64@gmail.com

* I have had to add 20p to
postage because a) I lost one of my jobs in December and money tight and b)
paypal take a greedy fat cut on each order that I need to recoup.

PUSH, shoestring budget? You
bet.

** The Julian Dicks 'tackle' is for the record from a game v Wolves not Hull City. But I fancied including as Wolves wear the same colours as Hull (so made it apt to a point) and it is also an image that says everything about PUSH 14. Trust me, this issue takes no prisoners.